Windows Server 2008 R2 P2V Boo...

Windows Server 2008 R2 P2V Boots To System Recovery

Hello,

I'm testing a restore of a physical server to a VM.

The physical server has one partition that is RAID 1 and uses Windows 2008 R2.

After downloading the VMDK file from Vembu, I attached that virtual disk to a new VM in Workstation 12 but when I boot the VM it goes into "Startup Repair" and attempts to repair the disk.

The physical server itself is fine and boots without issue.

Does anyone know if I have missed a step somewhere or what I can do to remedy the issue?

Thanks

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asked 2016-06-03 10:20:13 -0600

neil.sutherland
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Re: Windows Server 2008 R2 P2V Boots To System Recovery

by stanley

The 'Startup repair' issue might be occurred due to one of the following reasons

1) Missing of necessary VMDK drivers.

2) If any secondary disk is present in original physical machine and the same is not added while VM creation. Please check this case and update to us.

Steps to inject the necessary VMDK drivers through the Recovery CD is listed below,

1) Download the Vembu BDR Recovery CD build tool from the below link https://www.vembu.com/builds/v350/ (Based on the system architecture download Recovery CD 64 bit/32 bit.)

2) To prepare Recovery CD and perform restore by using Recovery CD, refer the below link https://s3.amazonaws.com/Vembu-help-documents/VembuBDR/PhysicalRecoveryUsing_RecoveryCD.pdf

If the problem still occurs after injecting VMDK drivers, please try to contact our support team at vembu-support@vembu.com. They will help you to resolve the issue.